- From: Martin Kliehm <martin.kliehm@namics.com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 11:36:12 +0200
- To: 'HTML Accessibility Task Force' <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
- CC: Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org>, John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>, 'Eric Carlson' <eric.carlson@apple.com>
On 16.09.2010 20:38, Philippe Le Hegaret wrote: > On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 14:18 -0700, John Foliot wrote: >> Doh!! >> >> https://docs.google.com/View?id=dcfg79pz_4gnmp96cz > > Connecting the dots here. > > This is very likely to be related to > http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/htmlspeech/ > > On a related note, we also have > http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/audio/ More dots: Mozilla implemented an Audio API in Firefox 4 Beta 5 that is read & write, probably that's what the incubator group is about. Also there's a draft for HTML Media Capture [1] that includes audio, image and video capture capabilities. With that audio API people have been playing around,[2,3] including a demo for speech synthesis.[4] A bug report addresses the inability to expose audio from the microphone to web content, so that's not too far-fetched.[5] I'd love to have built-in text-to-speech in the browser, and it doesn't seem to be impossible with current technology. Cheers, Martin [1] http://dev.w3.org/2009/dap/camera/ [2] http://weblog.bocoup.com/reading-the-audio-stream-from-firefox-3-7 [3] http://weblog.bocoup.com/generate-sound-with-javascript-in-firefox-4 [4] http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/05/fast-javascript-and-audio-speech-synthesis-in-your-browser/ [5] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=591976
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